back by popular demand

well, my fans have spoken ... and by "fans" i'm referring to "alex in canada" (hey alex!) who reprimanded me via my husband to get back on the bloggin' horse ...

so here we are ... halloween has passed ... thanksgiving has passed and Christmas is upon us and i've missed a plethora of blogging opportunities because i've been way too busy doing the "not blogging stuff" that seems to fill up my days.

stuff like assisting john with "wii stalking" throughout san antonio. it's not that we really decided it was time to bring video games in to our household as part of our Christmas celebration ... it was more like the gauntlet had been laid when the newspapers announced a wii was really, really hard to get.

then we had to have it.

john won the wii game early one morning in front of our nearest best buy store. he was #15 in line to get the last wii that arrived that morning.

shop victoriously, baby.

he marched in with his wii box strutting around all proud and then we looked at each other and wondered "now what"?

what does one do with said wii?

well, this is what you do. you go out and immediately double your initial investment with the purchase of two sets of the wii tennis racket/baseball bat/golf club set as well as GUITAR HERO and an extra nunchuk.

actually, i am the "Extra Nunchuk Queen" having been the one who actually located the nearly extinct extra nunchuk hiding place at wal-mart. i have no idea what it's for but it was really bugging me that we had 2 of everything except the nunchuk.

nunchuk matched sets. for the borderline obsessive compulsive personality.

someone casually mentioned it was for the boxing game. boxing?

i see lots of broken stuff in our future.

oh, and games. we got the tiger woods golf game ... a trauma surgery "game" for riley (i'm not a surgeon but i play one on my WII!) ... an amusement park/rollercoaster game ... and we sprung for a texas hold 'em game for john and i for our "after hours" enjoyment.

we haven't quite figured out how, if we're playing against each other, we won't see each other's cards ... most likely that will involve the purchase of an additional wall-mounted television and a curtain-like-contraption in order to divide our family room in to two poker playing stations.

i'm coming to find ... nothing is unreasonable in the world of wii.

as for now, it's resting comfortably, still in its assorted boxes, hiding out along with the other Santa gifts. we're planning on setting it up after the kids go to bed Christmas Eve.

i smell another "all-nighter" in my future!

and yet, as i write this, i'm wondering ... didn't we move to texas in order to spend more time outside doing stuff like playing tennis ... playing golf ... playing baseball ... and now i just bought a bunch of stuff that gives us the thrill of pretending to play tennis ... golf ... baseball ... of a little home surgery ...

after all, i did purchase season passes to six flags for everyone's stocking ... do i really need a video game where we pretend to be riding a rollercoaster instead of driving 15 minutes down the road to do it for real?

moot questions, really, because we shopped victoriously.

we own the wii ...

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